4 Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. xii. 



29. Megachile lachesis Smith. Luzon. 



30. Megachile laticeps Smith. 



31. Megachile sp. ? Manila (M. L. Robb). 



Family X. STELIDID^. 



32. Coelioxys philippensis Bingh. Luzon, Cape Eugeno. 



Family XL PANURGID^. 

 None. 



Family XIL ANDRENID^. 



Hoplonomia, new genus. 



This genus on account of the abdomen being banded is allied to 

 Fafano/nia Friese, but is readily separated from it and Nomia, sens, 

 str. by the post-scutellum in both sexes, being armed with two straight 

 spines, the scutellum with a median depression and with the hind 

 angles ending in a small tubercle. 



Nomia elliotii Smith and N. westwoodii Grib. described from 

 India, belong to this genus. 



33. Hoplonomia quadrifasciata, new Species. 



9 . Length 9 mm. Black, close!)' punctate, the apical margins of the abdom- 

 inal segments 2 to 5 depressed, smooth and shining, fasciate with yellow or greenish- 

 yellcrw ; face anteriorly from the insertion of the antennae, the cheeks, the pronotum 

 above and on each side including the tubercles, a line at base of scutellum, the post- 

 scutellum, and the metapleura, clothed with a dense whitish or yellowish-white 

 pubescence ; legs black, the hind tibije, except a large black spot behind, and the 

 basal joint of hind tarsi, except at apex, yellowish ; the hind femora are much swol- 

 len ; wings hyaline, the apical margins subfuscous ; the second cubital cell small, 

 quadrate, a little higher than long, and receiving the recurrent nervure a little beyond 

 the middle. 



^ . Length 8 mm. Agrees well with the 9 > except that the abdomen is nar- 

 rower, the terminal ventral plate and the genitalia being wholly honey-yellow, while 

 only the apex of the hind tibiae is yellow. The basal joint of the hind tarsi is entirely 

 black. 



Type. — No. 7720, U. S. National Museum. 



Manila. Described from a Z and 9 specimen received from 

 Father W. A. Stanton. 



34. Paranomia stantoni, new species. 



^. Length 8 mm. Black, the head below the antennae and the depressed 

 apical margins of the abdominal segments 2 to 6, white, the mesonotum and the 

 scutellum clothed with a dense fulvous pubescence, the face, cheeks, temples, sides 

 of thorax, legs, and the venter with a whitish pubescence ; mandibles black ; second 



